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Take a stand

This month, Vanessa King of Action for Happiness and author of 10 Keys To Happier Living recommends Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self To Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy

HAPPINESS BOOK CLUB

T hink back to a time when you were at your most authentic best in the face of a challenge – what did that feel like? Were you caught up in an internal dialogue about whether or not you were doing the right thing? Or were you fully present in the moment, trusting yourself? Which of these states most enables you to truly make the most of your potential? Of course it’s the latter, yet whether we are facing big challenges or small daily ones, we more commonly feel the former.

About Psychologies

This month we’re exploring how to truly have a happy Christmas. If you don’t have any religious beliefs, the holidays can be rather become a meaningless glut of overconsumption and commercialism, but this issue will help you explore how to create a different experience for you, your friends and family this year. And often it’s about kindness. Our interview with June Sapong explores how we can use kindness in our everyday lives to make the world a better place. One of our own relays her experience of finding the bravery and courage to start dating again. When a relationship goes sour, it’s normal to lick your wounds for a bit but how do we begin to heal and have the courage to be vulnerable and get back out there again? Ellen Tout takes us on that journey. Natalie Hourihan explores ‘creativism’ with author and entrepreneur Orna Ross and shows us how to connect with our ‘creative intelligence’ so we can design a life that works for us on our terms. The good news we all have access to this intelligence, we just need to know how to harness it!